SpaceX launches pioneering MethaneSAT satellite to track worst polluting oil and gas sites

A new satellite to monitor oil and gas projects leaking greenhouse gases has been successfully launched by an NGO and Elon Musk's SpaceX space company. MethaneSAT will measure methane emissions from wide areas that other satellites can't detect and "identify large emitters in places they aren't looking", said US non-profit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which developed the satellite with the New Zealand Space Agency. More

(Source: Sky News - Mar 7)